Re: chicken in America: from Asia? (cont.)

[agdndmc@showme.missouri.edu (Domingo Martinez-Castilla)]

 It seems that my former posting gave the impression that I was stating 
that "corn" was an indigenous word to the Americas.  I only say, in a 
sardonic way that I assumed would be picked up drom the context, that it 
was pre-Columbian.

So, for the record, I now put the right P.S.:

In article <58uuu6$kr1@lana.zippo.com>, Domingo Martinez-Castilla 
<agdndmc@showme.missouri.edu> wrote:
>
>P.S. Pavo real, by the way, literal translation could also be "royal peacock"
>And in US English, maize is called with a pre-Columbian word: corn.

And he should have written:

P.S. Pavo real, by the way, literal translation could also be "royal 
peacock"
And in US English, maize is called with a pre-Columbian word: corn. ;-D


Domingo Martinez-Castilla
agdndmc@showme.missouri.edu

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